Martha MacCallum Quotes

Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

As a teenager, I was perpetually grounded. I was stubborn rather than rebellious.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority!

I’ve never formally been number 1 in the Party, but everybody keeps hanging around me, showing me deference. I have to give the nod on every important decision. I carry too much weight and that is not good for the Party or the state.

I never liked being ordered around - which, of course, was an overreaction. I eventually found out that I didn't mind being ordered around at all when it was by someone who knew what he was doing.

I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!

Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

Learn to obey before you command.

You always rebel what your parents want you to listen to.

It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

I've never been any good with authority.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

In my family, if I talk back to my dad, I get in trouble.

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.

In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.